7 Onion Appetizers Better Than Onion Rings

One vegetable, seven directions: this set exists to prove the onion can headline a plate instead of garnishing it. All seven appetizers come from a single video, and two threads run through it. Cheese anchors three of the recipes, and the air fryer handles most of the crisping.

The running order gives you a path. The video opens with cheddar ring chips and a bacon-wrapped burger, moves through air-fried chips, Indian bhaji, and breakfast rings, then saves two showpieces for the end: a warm cheese and onion dip and a whole crisped onion flower. If you want a place to start, the plain Air Fryer Onion Chips are the gentlest entry point.

Think about who is eating rather than what night it is. The dip and the chips suit a table of grazers, the breakfast rings justify switching the air fryer on before noon, and the onion flower earns the centerpiece spot at a party. Most of the seven are done in under 30 minutes, so none of them demands a special occasion.

Recipes in this video

Cheddar rings open the video and set the tone for the whole seven: onions and cheese crisped together. Watch the first two minutes and you know what the set is about.

The heartiest bite in the lineup, and the only one leaning on meat. Cook it when the other six feel too snacky and you want the onion course to be dinner.

Our pick for a first cook. The shortest distance between a raw onion and something crunchy, and the recipe that shows what the air fryer alone can do.

Every set needs one dish from further afield. The Indian fritter brings the spice, and it suits anyone who finds plain fried onion a little quiet.

The only recipe here aimed at the morning. Everything else in the set leans toward snacks and party food, so this one stretches the humble onion across a meal nobody expects it at.

Made for sharing rather than plating. Pair it with the onion chips from earlier in the video and two of the seven recipes become one snack table.

We saved the showpiece for last. A whole onion opened into petals closes the video, and it is the one to cook when you want the table to go quiet for a second.

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